The 5 Most Effective Home Heating Efficiency Tips
Follow these suggestions to keep everything operating as best it can
If you are a homeowner somewhere here in the southeastern Massachusetts area, it probably goes without saying that you have and use some kind of home heating system. However, having your heat on doesn’t always guarantee that you and your home are always warm and comfortable.
How to use your home heating system efficiently
Feeling cold in your home even while your heat is running is a sign that you may not be heating your home as efficiently as possible. This doesn’t necessarily come down to your home heating system not working. In fact, there are things a homeowner can do to help heat his or her home effectively that don’t involve touching your furnace or boiler at all.
W.H. Riley & Son has put together the below five tips to improve the efficiency of your home heating system:
- Eliminate any drafts: It is easy for heat to exit a home through small openings around windows, doors, chimneys and ductwork so it is best to seal these up. Adding door sweeps, weather stripping and caulking around a home’s windows and doors can help keep warm air inside.
- Utilize the sun: Letting natural sunlight into your home by keeping the curtains and blinds open can add a nice extra layer of warmth. Just close your blinds and curtains once the sun sets to hold onto the heat that you let in throughout the day.
- Add insulation: Adding a layer of insulation to a home keeps it warmer and makes a house more energy-efficient.
- Use a programmable thermostat: With a programmable thermostat you can control the temperature of your home even when you are not at home. Therefore, you do not need to keep your heat blasting while you’re out in order to return home to a warm house.
- Don’t skip out on annual tune-ups: Scheduling professional and regular maintenance for your home heating system is the best way to help ensure that that system is working as efficiently and effectively as possible. In fact, a home heating system that isn’t regularly maintained by a professional can potentially lose up to 5% of its efficiency a year. No homeowner wants that! On top of being good for efficiency, regular maintenance also helps catch small issues before they turn into large and costly problems.
This is where W.H. Riley & Son comes in!
Home heating services from W.H. Riley & Son
The certified technicians at W.H. Riley are here to help with your home heating needs. We can repair and provide maintenance for furnaces and boilers that use propane, natural gas and heating oil. When you book a maintenance appointment with W.H. Riley we do a top to bottom clean of your home heating system, replace your filters and any damaged parts and conduct a thorough inspection for any damage or potential issues.
We can also install a furnace or a boiler on your southeastern Massachusetts property.
Contact W.H. Riley & Son today to help make sure your home heating system is working as efficiently as possible.